A common assertion amongst global warming alarmists contends that
bird populations inhabiting cooler habitats are set to significantly
decline, with "most" species becoming extinct as a result
of increased carbon emissions leading to a rise in temperatures.

However, a new peer reviewed scientific paper, which
set out to test the contention, has found that current trends
show the exact opposite to be true.

As reported by Co2
Science, the paper, written by Javier Seoane and
Luis Carrascal of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in
Madrid, Spain, found that "one-half of the study species
showed significant increasing recent trends despite the public
concern that bird populations are generally decreasing,"
while "only one-tenth showed a significant decrease."

The authors studied breeding population changes
for 57 species of common passerine birds between 1996 and 2004
in areas without any apparent land-use changes.

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Seoane and Carrascal, whose paper was recently published in Global
Ecology and Biogeography, state that "the coherent pattern
in population trends we found disagrees with the proposed detrimental
effect of global warming on bird populations of western Europe."

In 2006, Prince Phillip's World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) predicted
that unchecked climate change could "wipe out most birds",
forcing up to 72 percent of the world's bird species into extinction.

"Birds now indicate that global warming has set in motion
a powerful chain of effects in ecosystems worldwide," the
WWF report to a UN conference said.

These claims were echoed by research
scientists at Stanford last year who incorporated
the most recent climate change scenarios set forth in the reports
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Even Al Gore, in his now widely debunked documentary An Inconvenient
Truth, alluded to declining bird populations, declaring that
species such as pied flycatchers could no longer feed their young
due to global warming impacting insect species.

However, the Seoane and Carrascal study, which has predictably
garnered no media attention whatsoever, puts such claims into
perspective and highlights the fact that while such apocalyptic
predictions serve as excellent soundbites for climate change alarmists,
they ultimately undermine the contention that increased CO2 emissions
are significantly impacting global temperatures.

"Birds are the quintessential 'canaries in the coal mine'"
the WWF points out. Indeed they are, and according to the latest
studies their populations are flourishing.

Seoane and Carrascal cite several other studies similar to their
own:

They note, for example, that "one-half of terrestrial
passerine birds in the United Kingdom exhibited increasing recent
trends in a very similar time period (1994-2004)," citing
Raven et al. (2005); and they note that "there is also
a marked consistency between the observed increasing trends
for forest and open woodland species in the Iberian Peninsula
and at more northern European latitudes in the same recent years,"
citing Gregory et al. (2005). Likewise, they write that "Julliard
et al. (2004a), working with 77 common bird species in France,
found that species with large ecological breadth showed a tendency
to increase their numbers throughout the analyzed period."

The authors also point out that many species have flourished
due to the so called "greening
of the earth" phenomenon that has seen a vast
increase in plant growth in middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere
since the 1980s, primarily induced by increased
CO2 levels in the air.

Of course, anyone with any rudimentary knowledge of life on this
planet knows that CO2 has never been shown to be other than benign.
Life on Earth is carbon based.

Despite this large environmental bodies and institutions are
calling
to reduce CO2 outputs to ZERO, in order to combat
global warming. It is blatantly obvious that such a move would
return man to the stone age if not end civilization as we know
it and kill billions.

Any scientist knows that climate models struggle to predict weeks
and months into the future, let alone years. The reason why bird
species are not being wiped out as predicted by these fundamentally
flawed models, but are actually increasing, is that there is now
no
net warming, and during the rapid increase in production
of CO2 via human emissions between 1940 and 1970, the planet cooled.